Liesel Lotte Hibbert

Associate Professor, English Education (Language, communication and culture; Economics; Education)

South Africa; Cape Town

Liesel Hibbert is currently Professor of English Education at the Faculty of Education at Cape Peninsula University of Technology. Before that she was Professor in the Department of Applied Language Studies at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University for 7 years. She received her PhD in Linguistics from the University of Cape Town in 2000. Her research is largely social science-based and cross-disciplinary, with a focus on language politics, language in society and language in education. For instance, she has published in the following areas: global trends in translanguaging due to migration, literacy development, language development in higher education, political rhetoric, linguistic ethnography and African and South African writing. Her work has been published in, among other journals, Review of Research in Education, International Journal of the Sociology of Language, South African Journal of Higher Education, Educational Research for Social Change, Journal of the Sociology of Lan

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